在美国密苏里州，李峰会R-7学区庆祝一个独特的方案，使用替代资源产生资金用于技术基础设施，以帮助学生成功。方案，其中包括据称是全美最大的校车使用压缩天然气（CNG）过渡，也有利于环境，为纳税人节省了美元。李氏峰会R-7学区交通部门是一个地区的自有船队的149辆校车，每天运送约12,700名学生。

租后买计划的一部分，由当地学区采用创新的融资方法，有利于学生和社会的持续重视。该计划包括安全，节能，高效的校车采用压缩天然气（CNG）过渡到一个走向天然气供电设施维修卡车全电动送货车区的使用和延续。

学区的交通运输部和采购及分销部内的变化将大大降低燃料成本和对外国石油产品的依赖，同时也创造更环保的学区舰队。

从这个10年的举措估计的1100万美元的总储蓄的部分将用于购买技术基础设施和设备，这将有利于所有的R-7所学校和设施。

目前正在进行第一阶段的开关，以压缩天然气为动力的车辆，今年夏天发生的校车过渡和技术升级。其他的车辆过渡阶段会发生巴士和车辆是在未来几年到期更换。

托马斯建立校车周六-T-班轮显示HDX CNG在ACT世博2013

柴油动力的校车过渡到由CNG公交车的同时，也通过提供压缩天然气的公司，并与校车制造商，包括清洁能源伙伴关系，托马斯内置巴士和中西部地区客车销售。通过此次合作，将转换区以下车辆使用压缩天然气在未来的几年里：

• 149辆公交车，
• 学区冷藏车用于运送食品，
• 约46辆使用区的设施服务的维护和保管的员工。

106 CNG动力公交车交付，2013-14 2014-15学年交付，其余的正在逐步的新巴士。本区的学校巴士行驶约2万公里，每年整体的R-7校车车龄超过10年之前的CNG动力转换。

长期的燃料和维修费用估计约为11万主动与外部资源总额近350万美元。在每加仑成本而言，目前的估计节省近70％的燃料成本进行比较时，柴油燃料CNG区。

R-7操作CNG公共加油站

该倡议包括建设的压缩天然气（CNG）加气站附近地区的交通运输部。这家工厂将成为所有学区的车辆，而与公共CNG加气站提供社区和堪萨斯城都市圈。站，将在2013年秋季向公众开放，将提供额外的收入为小区自李峰会R-7将接受皇族零售C​​NG销售。

区租后买计划的一部分，目前交通运输部和设施处建筑旁购买了1.5亩。

In the U.S. State of Missouri, the Lee’s Summit R-7 School District is celebrating a unique program that uses alternative resources to generate funds for technology infrastructure to help students succeed. The program, which includes what is claimed to be the nation’s largest school bus transition to compressed natural gas (CNG), also benefits the environment and saves dollars for taxpayers. The Lee’s Summit R-7 School District Transportation Department is a district owned fleet of 149 school buses transporting approximately 12,700 students daily.

The lease-purchase program is part of a continuing emphasis on using innovative funding methods to benefit students and the community by the local school district. The plan includes transition to safe, energy-efficient school buses powered by compressed natural gas (CNG); a move toward CNG-powered facility maintenance trucks; and continuation of the district’s use of all-electric delivery trucks.

The changes within the school district’s Transportation Department and Purchasing and Distribution Department will greatly reduce both fuel costs and reliance on foreign oil products while also creating a more environmentally friendly school district fleet.

A portion of the estimated $11 million in overall savings from this 10-year initiative will be used to purchase technology infrastructure and equipment that will benefit all R-7 schools and facilities.

The school bus transition and technology upgrades are currently underway with the first phase of the switch to CNG-powered vehicles taking place this summer. Additional phases of the vehicle transition will occur as buses and vehicles are due for replacement in future years.

Thomas Built School Bus Sat-T-Liner HDX CNG on display at ACT Expo 2013

The transition from diesel-powered school buses to buses powered by CNG is also made possible through partnerships with companies providing compressed natural gas and with school bus manufacturers, including Clean Energy, Thomas Built Buses and Midwest Bus Sales. Through this partnership, the district will convert the following vehicles to compressed natural gas over the next few years:

• 149 buses,
• a school district refrigerator truck used for delivery of food items, and
• approximately 46 vehicles used by the district’s Facilities Services maintenance and custodial employees.

The new buses are being phased in with 106 CNG-powered buses being delivered for 2013-14 and the remainder delivered for the 2014-15 school year. The district’s school bus fleet travels approximately 2 million miles each year with the overall R-7 school bus fleet age exceeding 10 years before the CNG-powered conversion.

Long-term fuel and maintenance savings are estimated at approximately $11 million with outside resources for the initiative totaling close to $3.5 million. In terms of cost per gallon, current estimates show the district saving close to 70 percent in fuel costs when comparing diesel fuel to CNG.

R-7 to operate CNG public filling station

The initiative includes construction of a compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station near the district’s Transportation Department. This facility will serve all school district vehicles while providing the community and Kansas City metropolitan area with a public CNG filling station. The station, which will open to the public in fall 2013, will provide additional revenue for the district since Lee’s Summit R-7 will receive a royalty on retail CNG sales.

As part of the lease-purchase initiative, the district purchased 1.5 acres next to the current Transportation Department and Facilities Department buildings.